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David Mouriquand

Oscar-winning actress Brenda Fricker, best known for 'My Left Foot' and 'Home Alone 2', dies aged 81

Celebrated actress Brenda Fricker - the first Irish woman to win an Oscar - has died aged 81.

She won Best Supporting Actress in 1990 for playing the mother of Irish writer and painter Christy Brown in the biographical drama My Left Foot - for which Daniel Day Lewis won Best Actor.

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